UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Southern District of New York U.S. ATTORNEY GEOFFREY S. BERMAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE day, July 2019 http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Jim Margolin, Dawn Dearden, Nicholas Biase (212) 637-2600 FBI Martin Feely, Adrienne Senatore, Amy Thoreson (212) 384-2100 JEFFREY EPSTEIN CHARGED IN MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT WITH SEX TRAFFICKING OF MINORS Alleged Conduct Occurred in both New York and Florida over Multiple Years, Involving Dozens of Victims Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced that JEFFREY EPSTEIN was arrested this morning and charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. The indictment unsealed today alleges that, between at least in or about 2002 through 2005, EPST